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2014 in architecture

The year 2014 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events
June 8November 23Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by Rem KoolhaasOctober 13 – The seventh World Architecture Festival in Singapore • November 4 – Construction of Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire is abandoned ==Buildings and structures==
Buildings and structures
AntarcticaFebruary 12Jang Bogo Station opens. Australiadate unknownInfinity Tower, the tallest building in Brisbane, is completed (until 2016). • November 11Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology, Sydney, designed by Frank Gehry, is completed. CanadaSeptember 18Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, opens. • September 19Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, designed by Antoine Predock, opens. • December 13Halifax Central Library in Halifax, Nova Scotia, designed by Fowler Bauld and schmidt hammer lassen architects, opens. FranceOctober 28Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, designed by Frank Gehry, opens. Germany • February – Taunusturm in Frankfurt opens. Iran • October – Tabiat Bridge in Tehran, designed by Leila Araghian, opens. ItalyOctober 17Bosco Verticale in Milan, by Stefano Boeri opens. LatviaAugust 29 – New National Library of Latvia building in Riga, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, opens. NetherlandsMarch 13 - The new Rotterdam Central Station building, by Benthem Crouwel Architekten opens. PanamaOctober 2Biomuseo in Panama City, designed by Frank Gehry, opens. PhilippinesJuly 21Philippine Arena, the world's largest indoor domed-arena, in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, is completed. PolandSzczecin Philharmonic Hall, by Barozzi Veiga, is completed. Romania • Summer – The Maryam Mosque, a mosque for Romanian converts to Islam in Rediu, is completed. TaiwanNovember 23National Taichung Theater, by Toyo Ito with Cecil Balmond, is opened. United Arab EmiratesMarina 101, supertall skyscraper in Dubai, projected for completion. If completed before World One will become the tallest residential building in the world upon completion. United Kingdom • July – Buildings in London designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners completed: • 122 Leadenhall Street in the City. • World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre, British Museum. • August – 20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London, designed by Rafael Viñoly, completed. • September 16The News Building (London), designed by Renzo Piano, officially opened and named. • September 29Weston Library, a major reconstruction of the University of Oxford's New Bodleian Library by WilkinsonEyre, opens to readers. • December 9University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building, designed by heneghan peng architects (hparc), opened. • London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey. • Burntwood School, Wandsworth, London, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, completed; awarded 2015 Stirling Prize. • Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, designed by Haworth Tompkins, completed and awarded Stirling Prize. • Maggie's palliative care centres opened in • Lanarkshire, designed by Reiach and Hall (September). • Oxford, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (October). United StatesOctober 1 — Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University is dedicated, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects. • October 9Windhover Contemplative Center, designed by Aidlin Darling Design, opens at Stanford University. • October 10432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential buildings in the world is topped out. • November 3One World Trade Center in New York City, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Daniel Libeskind, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, opens. • One57, one of the tallest buildings in New York City became the tallest mixed-use (residential and hotel) skyscraper in the city. ==Exhibitions==
Exhibitions
October 25 until February 22, 2015 - Diller & Scofidio + Renfro Musings on a Glass Box at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, France. • December 3 (ends May 2015) – "One Way: Peter Marino" at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida. ==Awards==
Deaths
January 10Kathryn Findlay, British-born architect working in Japan (b. 1953) • February 25Heikki Siren, Finnish architect (b. 1918) • March 20William Toomath, (b. 1925), New Zealand architect • March 28Robin Gibson, Australian architect (b. 1930) • Avraham Yaski, Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927) • April 24Hans Hollein, Austrian architect (b. 1934) • April 28Frederic Schwartz, American architect, author and city planner (b. 1951) • July 11Randall Stout, 56, American architect (b. 1958) • July 26 – Sir Richard MacCormac, British architect (b. 1938) • August 18Kurt Meyer, Swiss-born architect working in the United States and Nepal (b. 1922) • August 22 – Sir Philip Dowson, British architect (b. 1924) • September 6Édith Girard, French architect (b. 1949) • September 27Taylor Hardwick, American architect (b. 1925) • Antti Lovag, Hungarian architect (Palais Bulles) (b. 1920) • December 24Ricardo Porro, Cuban architect who worked in France (b. 1925) ==See also==
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